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Public Sector Employment Regimes

Part of the book series: Transformations of the State ((TRST))

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Since the 1980s, the public sector has constantly been an object of structural reforms and quantitative adjustments. In several waves, public infrastructures and services have been privatized, political power and responsibility have been decentralized and recentralized to and from the regional and local levels, and new forms of management in public administration have been implemented, thereby substantially changing the face of Western nation-states.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Bremen, Germany

    Karin Gottschall (Professor of Sociology)

  2. University of Vienna, Austria

    Bernhard Kittel (Professor of Economic Sociology)

  3. University of Strathclyde, UK

    Kendra Briken (Lecturer)

  4. Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

    Jan-Ocko Heuer (Postdoctoral Researcher)

  5. University of Bremen, Germany

    Sylvia Hils (Research Assistant)

  6. Bremen, Germany

    Sebastian Streb

  7. University of Oldenburg, Germany

    Markus Tepe (Professor of Political Science)

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© 2015 Karin Gottschall, Bernhard Kittel, Kendra Briken, Jan-Ocko Heuer, Sylvia Hils, Sebastian Streb and Markus Tepe

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Gottschall, K. et al. (2015). Introduction. In: Public Sector Employment Regimes. Transformations of the State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313119_1

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